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Health committee  Insofar as seniors' homes are concerned, stakeholders protected a vulnerable population and banned visits, but failed to apply the principle of reciprocity. That was the problem. They needed to ensure that people in seniors' homes were well fed and well cared for, whether mentall

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  What worries me the most about a second wave is not being able to gear up our response strongly enough to meet it. Maybe the second wave will happen in a few weeks. In my opinion, at that time, we will probably have good habits to minimize the transmission of the virus, such as

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Mr. Chair, about Canada having a seat at the table, right now there are different high-governance platforms in terms of R and D, for example the WHO R&D Blueprint. On different boards of big NGOs, Canada is there on Gavi, but not on CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedne

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Mr. Chair, thank you very much for the question on testing. Everybody sees the necessity to have a testing strategy. This was especially true a few weeks ago, when we were in the reality of not having enough tests. We have ramped up, though not to the extent we wanted to. The th

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Mr. Chair, about the strategy on vaccination, I think I alluded to it in my short intervention. In all the experience I have from other pandemics and regional epidemics, we always prioritize the front-line workers. The reason is that if they fall ill, we have no one else to care

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Mr. Chair, about getting data on people in sub-communities, this is a question that is about personal, private information. I think that possibly would be feasible if we were to ask people if they were willing to give their information and be part of a supra-repository of data.

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Are we ready for a second wave? That's the question of the hour, and it's extremely difficult to answer. Indeed, we see that the recommendations are still hesitant. I think it's extremely difficult, because we're always trying to be very careful with what we do. We're putting co

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  All right, I'm sorry. I think it's hard to be ready, because people are in the deconfinement and economic recovery state of mind. Right now, I don't know if the authorities in the country are working very hard on a plan to deal with the micro outbreaks that I think are going to

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Sealing off hot and cold areas is difficult. What is unfortunate about all this is that strategies change as community transmission evolves. In a situation like the one discussed today, where community transmission is very high, it becomes increasingly difficult to get “cold” pat

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  On the masks, Mr. Chair, I think this is something that I have a bias for. When you look at the experiences of other countries, especially in Asia, you can see that this is something that has been imposed and perhaps is part of the culture to a certain extent. The reality is that

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Yes, I'm an ER doctor now in Montreal. I'm not with MSF anymore, but I still have communication with them.

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Mr. Chair, with respect to the two countries, I think this is not an unusual scenario. In many places, when you have an epidemic, you have an epicentre, and then other spots where it's not as severe in terms of the number of cases. Why the difference? I wish I could answer this q

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Mr. Chair, on the question of a vaccine and whether Canada is doing all it can to be there, I would say there's massive investment right now. I think the issue is the concern about the diversity of the investment. That's one thing. The other concern is making sure that we are fo

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, standing committee members. My intervention will be limited to my area of expertise, which is, basically, tackling regional epidemic-pandemic responses at the micro and macro levels as a humanitarian aid worker and then through my

June 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu

Health committee  This is a very good question. We are actually tackling it right now, and we are working in detention centres in different countries as well. The reality is that the only thing we are working on is to reduce the physical distance; we are trying to enact that as much as we can.

April 15th, 2020Committee meeting

Dr. Joanne Liu